Ralph S. Clem

Ralph Clem is Professor Emeritus of Geography at Florida International University. He was also the founding Director of FIU's Center for Transnational and Comparative Studies, a Title VI National Resource Center in International Studies. His research highlights the geopolitics of Russia, Ukraine and other post-Soviet countries and focuses on socioeconomic, military and national security issues. Clem is a Senior Fellow at the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at FIU and a Research Affiliate of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also retired from the Air Force, having served as an intelligence officer at the squadron, wing and national agency levels and on the Air Staff in the Pentagon.